[MlMt] Formatting correction feature?

[Nils Blomqvist]

On 17 Dec 2020, at 15:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On 17 Dec 2020, at 9:24, Nils Blomqvist wrote:
>
>> Steven M. Bellovin Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:01:58 -0800:
>>
>>> Someone once showed me how to set up 'fmt' as a service -- you select
>>> the text, right-click, and invoke this service; it wraps lines at 72
>>> characters. If there's interest, I'll dig up the instructions on how to
>>> do it.
>>
>> Here’s a reply from someone looking for ”wrap to n columns”.
>>
>> I tried the tip from Steven M. Bellovin, but I found it will strip away
>> a lot of characters, probably Unicode ones.
>>
>> Anyone has a tip?
>
> The semester is about over; I may rewrite fmt to handle Unicode,
> since it's been annoying me, too…

After some digging I found https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/457147,
recommending to install the Plan9 fmt port. I’ll give it a go another
day.